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Microsoft Teams Give/Take Control Feature will help your team’s presentation run smoother. This new feature will allow users to give or request control of the meeting. Users can change files; help present or demonstrate something. It will be available for use in May 2022!

In Development

Microsoft 365: Account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps

Users can sign into multiple work and personal accounts on Microsoft 365 web apps in the same browser. This also allows them to seamlessly switch between the accounts without having to sign out and sign back in again.

ID: 70801 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Compliance center: Records management multi-stage disposition review

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.

ID: 82110 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Graph: ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector

ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector will index incident tickets from ServiceNow into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86517 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Graph: Confluence On-premises Graph Connector

Confluence On-premises Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence on-premises site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86518 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Support of live captions for Teams for VDI for Citrix

Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

ID: 86774 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Manage What Attendees See

Attendees will only see shared content and presenters that you bring on screen.

ID: 86818 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Domain Customization for Webinar Communications

Showcase your organization’s brand in webinar communications. When webinar emails are sent to attendees, both the sender name and email domain will now reflect the tenant name, making it easier for attendees to recognize.

ID: 86896 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Safari for GCC High and DoD

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Safari browser.

ID: 86906 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for iOS

Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.

ID: 86957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for Android

Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.

ID: 86958 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Attendance Dashboard in GCC

Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the Attendance Dashboard.

ID: 87061 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Admins can pin message extensions

Admins can manage the pin order of messaging extensions in the compose experience.

ID: 87506 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Teams on VDI for VMware

User on VMware will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87558 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Teams for VDI on Azure Window Desktop and Windows 365

User on Azure Window Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87559 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

User on Citrix will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87560 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Forms Integration with Microsoft Bookings

Associate Forms templates to Booking services to send forms for data intake from attendees prior to joining a Booking appointment.

ID: 87607 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Device Test for virtual visits

Ability for users to test their device before a virtual visit.

ID: 87715 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Forms: Increasing the response quota for Forms

The number of responses allowed per form or quiz is being increased to five million. The form owner will be able to export the results into a *.csv file for analysis.

ID: 87750 Tags: Forms – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Check out for Microsoft Teams panels

From a Microsoft Teams panel, users can “check out” of a room with the touch of a button, ending the room reservation and returning the room back to the room inventory.

ID: 88047 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Chat with self

Users can send themselves notes, messages, files and images/videos; helping them stay organized.

ID: 88066 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Expanded Reactions

Expanded reactions allows users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat messages! Pick from 800 plus Teams emojis to react the way you want.

ID: 88080 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Delay delivery of chat messages

You can send out a chat message in a time that is convenient to you, and the message will arrive to its destination at the time you scheduled.

ID: 88281 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Teams: New Tag Management Settings

This feature will update default tag management settings in the Teams Admin Center to include ”Team owners and members” and not just “Team owners.” You can still update this to only “Team owners” at the tenant level and override the default.

ID: 88318 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Workspace Management

Workspace Management is a new feature within Teams Admin Center that provides an integrated view of Teams devices and peripherals based on their location, along with relevant insights. This capability provides IT admins the ability to manage connected devices, and monitor workspace health, utilization and conformance to standards at any location.

ID: 88326 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Governance – Power Automate integration

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

ID: 88816 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration anomaly detector (CEAD)

CEAD will include experience enhancements to make it easier to evaluate the risk as well as leverage priority content and document sensitivities to further prioritize alerts. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88908 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: New Credential SITs

The addition of new Credential Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection.

ID: 88941 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft 365 data loss prevention on-premises scanner (US Government clouds)

Microsoft 365 DLP on-premises scanner relies on a full implementation of the Azure Information Protection (AIP) scanner to monitor, label, and protect sensitive items. It crawls on-premises data-at-rest in file shares and SharePoint document libraries and folders for sensitive items that, if leaked, would pose a risk to your organization, or pose a risk of compliance policy violation. This gives you the visibility and control you need to ensure that sensitive items are used and protected properly, and to help prevent risky behavior that might compromise them. The information about what the users are doing with sensitive items is made visible in Activity explorer and you can enforce protective actions on those items via DLP policies.

ID: 88960 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center, Azure Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Alerts and notifications for score changes

This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.

ID: 88964 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Alerts and notifications for score changes (US Government clouds)

This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.

ID: 88965 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Recommendation wizard for bulk assessment creation (US Government clouds)

Compliance Manager can indicate which assessments may be most relevant to your organization. When you provide basic information about your organization’s industry and locations, we’ll recommend which templates to use from our library of over 300 templates. Simply choose among the recommended templates for quick setup of multiple assessments all at once.

ID: 88966 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Yammer: Communities app in Teams – notification for when you’ve been added to a community

You will receive a notification in Microsoft Teams when someone adds you to a Yammer community.

ID: 88984 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish languages

Outlook on the web, iOS, and Android are extending support for suggested replies to include the following languages: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish.

ID: 88992 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Inline video helper for policy attributes in TAC

Admins will have an option to quickly play a simple video/gif available for a policy attribute to understand the impact of policy control on end user experience and decide whether to enable it or disable it for the users in their org.

ID: 90704 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Bulk removal for individual policy assignments

Admins can cleanup individual policy assignments from users in bulk, so that those users can inherit the correct policy either via a group policy assignment or global org-wide default.

ID: 90705 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Policy operations details in enhanced activity log

Admins can see group policy assignments in activity log along with other policy operations. Activity log has now enhanced details regarding a policy operation to give admins more visibility.

ID: 90712 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Teams webinar capabilities in GCC

Schedule and deliver 1,000 person webinars with the same Teams app you use for meetings! Webinar capabilities support registration page creation, email confirmation for registrants, host management for attendee video and audio, attendee reporting, plus interactive features like polls, chat, and reactions.

ID: 91562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Large Gallery for Teams on VDI in Government Clouds

By default, Teams Meetings supports up to 9 videos in Gallery. Now, using Large Gallery, users can view up to 49 videos at once in meetings on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

ID: 93000 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode for Teams on VDI in Government Clouds

Together Mode lets you see all your colleagues against a shared background, making you feel like you are all ‘together’ in a virtual online room. Now available in meetings on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

ID: 93001 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Large Gallery for web in Government Clouds

By default, Teams Meetings supports up to 9 videos in Gallery. Now, using Large Gallery, users can view up to 49 videos at once in meetings.

ID: 93012 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode for web in Government Clouds

Together Mode lets you see all your colleagues against a shared background, making you feel like you are all ‘together’ in a virtual online room.

ID: 93015 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC

Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.

ID: 93163 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com

People-centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around them. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people through their content. When you pick a person, you will be able to search through their work; however this will only include items that you already have permissions to view or modify.

ID: 68783 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Automated testing and documentation of scored actions in Compliance Manager

Automated testing and documentation of scored actions in Compliance Manager with the ability to view or download evidence for an automatically scored action.

ID: 72222 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

SharePoint: Display images from Microsoft Lists in Power Apps

Power Apps image controls will now display images that are stored in Microsoft Lists Image columns. They can be displayed in four sizes: small, medium, large, or full.

ID: 81986 Tags: PowerApps, SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Search: History suggestions on Microsoft Search in Bing

Enterprise users will now get their historical searches as suggestions in the autosuggest pane on Bing and Microsoft Search in Bing.

ID: 82147 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Intune: Enhancements to AAD Shared Device Mode multi-user support on Android Enterprise dedicated devices

Use apps on multi-user shared devices that don’t have native support for AAD Shared Device Mode. Uses Android OS capability to clear local storage of specified apps upon sign-out.

ID: 83968 Tags: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Forms: New Polling App “Polls” in Teams meeting and chat

Based on learnings from early feedback, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We have updated the rollout timeline. Thank you for your patience. Polling is one of the key capabilities in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Forms is focused on providing the best polling experience to our customers; therefore, Forms will release a more discoverable app named “Polls” in Teams. Adding polls to your Teams chats/meetings via this new “Polls” app will be the same experience as before (via the Forms app), but now it’s under a new app name and Teams-branded icon.

ID: 84567 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive

You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript  files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.

ID: 85610 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records Management – Disable unlocking of records

Records Management admins can disable the ability for users to unlock a record tenant wide. Currently, items marked as a record in SharePoint can be unlocked for editing by end users. This is currently available in Preview.

ID: 85663 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365

Teams users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.

ID: 85693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly for GCC

A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby.

ID: 86069 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – VMware

This feature enables users on VMware on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.

ID: 86858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: January CY2022

Outlook: Text Predictions on iOS

Outlook can suggest words and phrases as you compose messages. When Outlook offers a suggestion, swipe to accept it.

ID: 88477 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Governance – Configuration option to block the ability to edit metadata for records

This update allows records management admins to prevent users from editing metadata on items designated as records on SharePoint and OneDrive. This is currently available in Preview.

ID: 88510 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold reports

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

ID: 88540 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Communication templates and issuing officer settings

Create communication templates and then simply select one to quickly draft your hold notifications. Add attorneys as issuing officers for your organization to send hold notifications on behalf of, without adding them as case members.

ID: 88813 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Enhanced import custodians wizard experience

The new import custodians wizard empowers eDiscovery managers to quickly validate and remediate any errors in their CSV file before submitting custodian import jobs.

ID: 88814 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance: Retention label deletion behavior change in SharePoint for Government clouds

Improved consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, allowing users to “delete” files labeled with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” as this operation is no longer blocked with an error message. When deleted, these files will still be preserved for compliance purposes by moving a copy of them to the “Preservation Hold Library” of the site where they can be accessed by eDiscovery and other compliance solutions.

ID: 88820 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

SharePoint Syntex and SharePoint: Add taxonomy columns from modern library views

Allows users to add taxonomy columns directly to library views in modern SharePoint and Syntex libraries.

ID: 88828 Tags: SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Briefing Email support for Japanese and Simplified Chinese

This personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will support Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

ID: 88832 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists Customizable Command Bar

You can personalize a list to suit your needs by customizing the command bar. Like how you can customize form headers and footers, the JSON based feature will allow basic changes to the command bar, including modification of icon or text, hiding existing options or repositioning commands.

ID: 88861 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Office app: Account Switching in Office mobile app

With Account switching, users can switch from one account to another through the Profile icon and have a single account view throughout the app.

ID: 88930 Tags: Excel, Office app, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

OneDrive: Sync Activity Center Visual Update

The Activity Center has received a visual update to more align with the Fluent Design language. This visual update applies a modern look to the Activity Center.

ID: 88954 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Yammer: Enhancements to Yammer’s interactive email notifications

The enhancements would include user experience changes to help with information density of the content for ease of consumption and engagement within Yammer’s the interactive emails as well as enable users to discover recommended conversations within these emails.

ID: 88967 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Teams calls for GCCH and DoD

End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. End-to-end encryption would be an optional mode of real-time media collaboration where one-to-one Teams calls between two parties would be end-to-end encrypted.

ID: 89249 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pinned apps for frontline workers

We are providing a tailored experience for frontline workers in Teams! With this feature users with an F license will get frontline worker apps such as Tasks, Shifts, Walkie Talkie and Approvals pinned out of the box. Organizations can further configure the apps pinned, but this feature provides a foundation for a Teams environment purpose-built for frontline workers.

ID: 89924 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Education policy wizard – Multiple group support

Admins can now add up-to three groups, instead of one previously, of educators and staff for applying the specialized custom set of policies.

ID: 90510 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on iOS in GCC

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

ID: 91561 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Creating more granular email notifications for Service issues

Adding the ability to separate email notifications for the different types of service issues that show up on the Service Health dashboard. Currently admins can enroll in email notifications for incidents and advisories, we are adding additional granularity for admins to subscribe to Microsoft service issues and issues occurring within your organization that require admin action.

ID: 91627 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Tags are available in DOD

Tags are available in DoD. Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone.

ID: 81096 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: February CY2022

OneDrive and SharePoint for Business: Library Dropdown

We’re adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site.

ID: 81990 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email summary panel

We’re making it easier for security teams to see the full picture of emails. We launched a single, integrated view with the email entity page, and now we’re making it easier to see this information in multiple experiences. This feature release targets more consistency, and easier navigation, saving time and effort for the customers.

ID: 82101 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Insights usage report

This usage report will help IT admins understand the number of daily enabled and active users for Viva Insights.

ID: 82195 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Music Mode for Teams

In music mode, we support up to 32 kHz sampling rate mono audio at 128 kbps, and optimize our internal audio processing settings for reproducing music with high fidelity. Teams will automatically adjust the audio bitrate based on the available bandwidth, going down to 48 kbps while still delivering good music quality. We also provide users the option to turn off components such as echo cancellation, noise suppression, and gain control if needed. To benefit from this improved fidelity, professional microphones and headphones or high quality external loudspeakers are ideal (no Bluetooth headsets). Built-in microphones and speakers on laptops such as the Surface Book will also deliver good experience.

ID: 83520 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on Teams phones

Like traditional walkie talkies, the Walkie Talkie app on your Teams phones provides an instant push-to-talk (PTT) communication for your team. It allows you to press and hold a button to speak to your team, and release the button to listen. Users can connect with their team using the Teams channels.

ID: 83653 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails available in Brazilian Portuguese

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS now supports playing your emails in Brazilian Portuguese for users in Brazil. This is in addition to our support of English speaking users.

ID: 85664 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure Teams DLP policies to automatically protect files shared in Teams messages

New and existing Teams DLP policies can be configured to automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.

ID: 85667 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Share specific parts of the App to meeting stage

We have introduced new API’s within the Teams Client SDK that will provide developers the ability to share specific content within their app to the meeting stage from the app side panel experience.

ID: 87799 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Co-authoring on MIP-encrypted documents on Mobile

Multiple authors can edit labeled and protected documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, frictionless, and with auto-save, as if they were regular documents.

ID: 88512 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Viva: Supporting four additional languages for Headspace in Viva Insights- French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish

Guided meditations and mindfulness exercises from Headspace in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in additional languages – French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish – to foster mindfulness and wellbeing throughout the workday.

ID: 88518 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlining the submissions experience in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We are updating the submissions experience to allow you to submit emails, URLs, and email attachments from one easy to use location.

ID: 88929 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Updated Cortana iconography on front of room display and console in a Microsoft Teams Room

Update to the Cortana iconography that appears on the front of room display and console UI in a Microsoft Teams Room.

ID: 89102 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Edge v.99: Personalize multi-profile experiences with profile preferences for sites

Users can personalize their multi-profile experience with the ability to create a customized list of sites for automatic profile switching in Microsoft Edge.

ID: 91548 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Canceled

Insider Risk Management: Integration with Communication Compliance

This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Ability to leverage Communication Compliance capabilities to identify additional risk areas. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 61225 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

SharePoint: Updated Tag column for images

This roadmap is cancelled as a duplicate of 88708. Image tags are automatically created and includes descriptive labels when they are uploaded into SharePoint within Microsoft 365. This improves Microsoft Search results. With the new update, people will be able to manually add or remove tags from this column using freeform text or from the managed metadata service (your company taxonomy). Additionally, we are designing a new flow trigger in Power Automate that will allow programmable actions based on these tags.

ID: 68902 Tags: SharePoint – Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Core and Advanced eDiscovery: New export experience

This item is delayed. Core eDiscovery export is being retooled to improve reliability and scalability. The experience will be simplified and does not rely on a click-once application. Automated download of exported content from Core eDiscovery will still not be supported. We are also introducing a similar experience in Advanced eDiscovery that will have the same options and can be automated through the Microsoft Graph APIs.

ID: 82007 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Project: Guest users in Project for the web

Item is being removed as a duplicate of 91686. Add guest users & assign tasks to them. Guest users can view projects shared with them.

ID: 82106 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams user activity per user graph API

This feature is cancelled as a result of customer feedback. We are introducing a new Teams user activity per user Graph API to help you track Teams usage per user over time.

ID: 85543 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022